President Trump has announced the withdrawal of US combat troops from the « Greater Middle East », but the Pentagon is still pursuing the implementation of the Rumsfeld-Cebrowski plan. This time the aim is to…
Category: Global Issues
Infographic reveals for the first time that the U.S. is now operating in 40 percent of the world’s nations Less than a month after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, U.S. troops—with…
European Union officials are up in arms over the Trump administration’s demotion of its US ambassador. The downgrade is viewed as yet another slight from a president who has contempt for supranational bodies like the…
Today Mike Pompeo, the U.S. Secretary of State, visited Egypt. He held a somewhat delusional speech at the American University in Cairo. It is headlined: A Force for Good: America Reinvigorated in the Middle East:…
As was to be expected, the announcement that the US was withdrawing troops from Syria has served to provoke numerous reactions in the Middle East and beyond. Following the removal of Mattis, Pompey and Bolton…
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the first major military assault on the 2 million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip. After its unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, Israel turned the area into the biggest open-door…
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan rebuked Washington’s national security adviser on Tuesday for demanding that his country not attack Kurdish fighters in Syria, accusing him of complicating President Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw…
Bolton’s condition that the U.S. won’t withdraw until Turkey guarantees not to attack the YPG didn’t go over very well in Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan scolded and snubbed visiting White House national security adviser John Bolton on…
Ever since it was decided to locate the headquarters of the United Nations in New York, the world body has been beset by constant meddling by the host country, that is, the United States, which…
An extraordinary mission by the China National Space Administration helps us to learn a bit of ancient and modern Chinese culture. Today at 2:26 utc the lunar lander module Chang’e-4 and its six wheel rover Yutu-2 landed…
